Near the Constitucion train station, in a neighborhood with solid tango credentials, lives Rodolfo Mederos, a much-esteemed bandoneonist.

When I reel her at her studio, she was wearing the same tailored suit with the fur-muff collar that I saw her perform in several nights before, but in the afternoon light I can see now that her pants are worn ragged across the thighs, a tell-tale sign of a bandoneonist.

One word of advice: don't ever mention accordion and bandoneon in the same breath in the presence of a bandoneonist.

Walther Castro, one of the new generation of bandoneonists, swears that nowhere does his instrument play as well as it does in Buenos Aires.

Even today, when Argentina's bandoneonists are celebrated around the world, back home in Buenos Aires the bandoneon is not allowed to perform in a Catholic church.

One of the exceptions is the album's centerpiece, Juan Carlos Cabian's Mi Refugio, originally performed as a solo by Piazzolla and technologically rebuilt as a virtual duet between the late bandoneonist and Burton's shimmering vibes.

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